Gereshk District (pop 166,827), also called Nahri Saraj, takes the name from its principal municipality of Gereshk town (pop 48,546) in Helmand Province, Southern Afghanistan.
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The ethnic composition is predominantly Pashtun.[1]
Gerishk District sits at the intersection of Highway 1 (the 'Afghan ring-road', based on the old Silk Road and refurbished in the 1960s with US investment) and the Helmand River. A major stopping-point on the trade routes from Pakistan and Iran, Gereshk enjoys the prospect of returning to its historical prosperity, although this is under threat of Taliban resurgence in the region.
The main source of income is agriculture. The soil is rich and the irrigation systems are in relatively good condition. The irrigation is from the Helamand River, karezes and tube-wells.
There is a hospital with both male and female doctors. There are 20 schools in the district, attended by 80% of the children.
Bismullah appointed to be the transportation director for Ghereskh by the Hamid Karzai administration was sent to Guantanamo, where he was held in extrajudicial detention for seven years.[2] On January 17 2009, the Bush administration acknowledged that he had never been an "enemy combatant".
Abdul Qudus, a teenage boy, and orphan, described accepting the hospitality of some militiamen one night, as he was travelling from one uncle's house to another's in 2003.[3 ] He described the militiamen kidding him about the Taliban, only to tell him in the morning that they were going to turn him in to the Americans in Gereshk as someone seeking weapons to attack US soldiers. His Combatant Status Review Tribunal determined he was not an enemy combatant in 2004.
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